Master of Engineering in Bioengineering (Online)

The Graduate Program in Bioengineering provides a strong, flexible, highly analytical education leading to the Master of Engineering degree in Bioengineering. A Graduate Certificate in Engineering is also available as a post-master's or post-doctoral option to obtain this highly focused education. Courses are available on-campus and online for full-time or part-time study and either degree program can be completed 100% online.

Demand for Bioengineers is on the rise and this graduate program offers an outstanding educational opportunity in a strong interdisciplinary infrastructure and collaborative culture that merges engineering applications and principles with the sciences of biology, medicine, and health. It is our belief that developments at the intersection of biology and engineering will advance the efficacy of health care by developing new paradigms for the diagnosis of disease and delivery of new therapeutics. Our students gain the knowledge base and skill sets to synthesize and characterize biomimetic systems; to quantitatively measure and rationally manipulate cells, tissue, and integrated systems; and to develop novel materials for biomedical devices. Bioengineers bring problem solving skills and design methodologies to the study of biology in an effort to translate the biological sciences to medical practice.

Master of Engineering in Energetic Concepts (Online)

This program will prepare you for a career in energetics, a branch of the physical science of mechanics, which deals primarily with energy and its transformations. Energetics research is the underpinning of the development of explosives and propellants. Energetics has clear applicability to military R&D, including the development of explosives technology, undersea weapons and pilot ejection devices. Other applications are in space exploration, fire suppression, anti-terrorism and cartridge-actuated devices such as door openers and automobile airbags.

Master of Engineering in Fire Protection Engineering (Online)

The Master of Engineering in Fire Protection curriculum supports the emerging international movement toward performance-based approaches to fire safety analysis and design. It will provide you with a thorough understanding of the physics and chemistry of fire necessary for predicting building system performance and analyzing failures. Additionally, you will be required to demonstrate the ability to use scientific and engineering principles to evaluate structures for the hazards of fire and apply engineering principles in the assessment of performance of fire protection systems. You will learn how to use deterministic and probabilistic methods for analyzing fire risk as well as use computer models to simulate fire development. There is no research component required, and the program can be completed entirely online in 15 months on a part-time basis.

Master of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering (Online)

The Online Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering provides a strong, flexible, highly analytical education leading to the Master of Engineering degree.

Demand for nuclear engineers is on the rise

There is a rapidly growing national need for the education of a large number of graduate-level nuclear engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy, at nuclear utilities, and at energy consulting companies. A rapid expansion in the number of nuclear power plants is expected in the next five years.

UMD's Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering leverages unique strengths to meet the need

The University of Maryland is committed to the education and training of future graduate-level nuclear engineers, researchers and national leaders. Our program combines cross-disciplinary engineering principles in nuclear sciences and reliability with new concepts in nuclear engineering, advanced research approaches and practical industrial methods. The education our students receive is directed toward a greater emphasis of safety, reliability and the environment, while maintaining our strengths in reactor engineering.

In its on-campus and on-line forms, a student is awarded the Master of Engineering degree in the Nuclear Engineering academic option after having completed ten three-credit courses.

Master of Engineering in Project Management (Online)

If you are in the fields of engineering, design, information technology, communications, construction, architecture or other technical disciplines engaged in managing projects, this program is for you. The Master of Engineering in Project Management prepares you to excel in your engineering career by blending high-demand project management skills with your excellent engineering knowledge.

This is not a watered down internet program. Our online classes are identical to those offered on our main campus. What you learn, as you learn it, is immediately beneficial to you and your employer. Our ever evolving course of study – refined for years at our main campus – was developed by expert engineering project management practitioners. It sets the standard for internet-accessible programs.

Master of Engineering in Reliability Engineering (Online)

This interdisciplinary option is offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Typical areas of study include topics such as the mechanisms and physics of failure, methods of design for reliability, maintainability engineering, life cycle costing and equipment-sparing policies.

Master of Engineering in Sustainable Energy Engineering (Online)

Be a part of this new academic program, learning from faculty in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Systems Engineering, this unique multi-disciplinary curriculum represents their commitment to preparing engineers for the challenges of this rapidly growing field. Courses are taught by the university's foremost experts in various areas of energy engineering as well as international experts from the public and private sectors.

Drawing upon the Clark School's strengths in energy engineering through UMERC (University of Maryland Energy Research Center), we will be able to offer working engineers and technical professionals access to the coursework and faculty at the forefront of energy science and technology.

The high interest in Sustainable Energy Engineering education locally and the lack of an equivalent option available from other top engineering schools nationwide necessitate offering the Master's program on-line nationally and internationally. The sustainable energy field is an international and dynamic area where well-trained engineers are in high demand. Graduates can expect to find employment in either companies or government agencies. The Master of Engineering program in Sustainable Energy Engineering is also an excellent starting point for a research career.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Bioengineering (Online)

The Graduate Program in Bioengineering provides a strong, flexible, highly analytical education leading to the Master of Engineering degree in Bioengineering. A Graduate Certificate in Engineering is also available as a post-master's or post-doctoral option to obtain this highly focused education. Courses are available on-campus and online for full-time or part-time study and either degree program can be completed 100% online.

Demand for Bioengineers is on the rise and this graduate program offers an outstanding educational opportunity in a strong interdisciplinary infrastructure and collaborative culture that merges engineering applications and principles with the sciences of biology, medicine, and health. It is our belief that developments at the intersection of biology and engineering will advance the efficacy of health care by developing new paradigms for the diagnosis of disease and delivery of new therapeutics. Our students gain the knowledge base and skill sets to synthesize and characterize biomimetic systems; to quantitatively measure and rationally manipulate cells, tissue, and integrated systems; and to develop novel materials for biomedical devices. Bioengineers bring problem solving skills and design methodologies to the study of biology in an effort to translate the biological sciences to medical practice.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Nuclear Engineering (Online)

The Online Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering provides a strong, flexible, highly analytical education leading to the Master of Engineering degree.

Demand for nuclear engineers is on the rise

There is a rapidly growing national need for the education of a large number of graduate-level nuclear engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy, at nuclear utilities, and at energy consulting companies. A rapid expansion in the number of nuclear power plants is expected in the next five years.

UMD's Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering leverages unique strengths to meet the need

The University of Maryland is committed to the education and training of future graduate-level nuclear engineers, researchers and national leaders. Our program combines cross-disciplinary engineering principles in nuclear sciences and reliability with new concepts in nuclear engineering, advanced research approaches and practical industrial methods. The education our students receive is directed toward a greater emphasis of safety, reliability and the environment, while maintaining our strengths in reactor engineering.

In its on-campus and on-line forms, a student is awarded the Master of Engineering degree in the Nuclear Engineering academic option after having completed ten three-credit courses.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Project Management (Online)

If you are in the fields of engineering, design, information technology, communications, construction, architecture or other technical disciplines engaged in managing projects, this program is for you. Both the Graduate Certificate in Engineering and Master of Engineering in Project Management prepare you to excel in your engineering career by blending high-demand project management skills with your excellent engineering knowledge.

This is not a watered down internet program. Our online classes are identical to those offered on our main campus. What you learn, as you learn it, is immediately beneficial to you and your employer. Our ever evolving course of study –- refined for years at our main campus –- was developed by expert engineering project management practitioners. It sets the standard for internet-accessible programs.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Reliability Engineering (Online)

Reliability, safety and quality are the keys to success in today's commercial, industrial and public sector environments. Reliability engineers perform a wide variety of special management and engineering tasks to ensure that sufficient attention is given to details that will affect the reliability of a given system. The tasks for production of a particular system include the following specific reliability tasks: participate in the planning stages to ensure that resources for a good reliability engineering program are being allocated; prepare a reliability program plan; list the needed reliability tasks and for each give the depth to which it should be performed, when it should be performed, who will use the results and what resources (time, people, money) the task will use; budget the allowable system failures down to the component level; evaluate the reliability potential of alternative designs; ensure that all components in a design will actually behave as the designer anticipates they will behave and that they will have suitably long lives; and formulate and run tests on components, subsystems and the system itself. Areas of specialization include assessment testing and operation, component and structures, electronic packaging and software reliability.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Technology Ventures and Innovation (Online)

The Clark School announces a new four course Graduate Certificate in Engineering (GCEN) program in Technology Ventures and Innovation.

Drawing on the strengths of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) in creating successful technology ventures and connecting Maryland companies with university resources, we have created a graduate certificate in engineering program to educate the next generation of technology entrepreneurs. In fact, many of the technologists that have been exposed to our technology venturing and innovation best practices have already become successful entrepreneurs, either with independent startup companies or through new ventures within existing companies.

The GCEN program in entrepreneurial practices and tactics has been developed specifically for professionals interested in the process and procedures for technology advancement. While this program is primarily for technologists, you do not need to be an engineer or have an undergraduate degree in engineering to pursue this program. Interested parties with a bachelor's degree in another academic area and a strong desire to succeed in a technology venture are encouraged to apply.

At Mtech and the Clark School of Engineering, we believe that a firm grasp of the entrepreneurial process benefits every person engaged in developing technology. Our goal is to infuse technology-creating students, faculty members and professionals with that knowledge and its accompanying skills. Armed with an entrepreneurial mind-set, technology creators will drive our nation's economic growth by launching successful ventures and bringing life-changing products and services to market.